For nonprofits. China Developing Super Electromagnet Pulse Bomb To Use In War Against U.S. - Jersey City Civil Rights. China is gearing up for war against the United States and their top weapon is a super electromagnetic pulse bomb that can blanket the U.S. and send America back to the dark ages in less than one second. Past reports from Chinese military websites and Asian newspapers have outlined a several attacks that China could launch to win a war against the more technologically and militarily advanced United States. These strategical attacks, as a MITRE research report reveals, are part of an arsenal known as shashoujian or the assassin's mace. Demystifying Shashoujian: China's 'Assassin's Mace' ConceptInterestingly, very few modern definitions of shashoujian can be documented. The most comprehensive Chinese military statement about shashoujian―that resembles a formal definition―comes from a PLA Air Force (PLAAF) officer, Senior Colonel Yang Zhibo, who, in 2002, served as a deputy researcher at the PLAAF Command College in the Office for Planning and Management Research.
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Website. AN ENERGY- SECURE SOUTH AFRICA - CSIR. GROW YOUR OWN TREEHOUSE. Photo: Richard Reames, Arborsmith There are houses built in trees and then there are treehouses. Last year, we had one of our first encounters with a home literally made from trees, using the art of weaving (and sometimes grafting) trees together to form structures — a practice ecological designer, Richard Reames, called “Arcorsculpture.” The Fab Tree Hab was one of the design entries for the Index: awards, emerging from the genius of a crew including MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and our friend, Javier Arbona of Archinect. The project description emphasized consideration of whole systems (and ecosystems) in creating a truly sustainable built environment, rather than a piecemeal approach that could yield uncertain longterm outcomes.
This is not exactly garden variety as building strategies go, but it’s certainly among the most ornate, natural, and “green.” German landscape architect, Rudolf Doernach, used techniques like this in what he broadly called “biotecture” or “agritecture.” Edible garden forest in africa. The Valhalla Project: From Africa to Valhalla: a keyhole garden. Have you ever heard of a garden that waters and fertilizes itself? We certainly had never heard of such a thing until last week when we stumbled across a short video showing women in Africa building a "keyhole garden. " The concept is incredibly simple, and the keyhole raised bed in the video looked very easy to construct with hardly any tools and only very inexpensive materials. Take a look for yourselves: Of course Valhalla must have one - and if this first prototype actually works, there's plenty of room where several more could be built.
The following step-by-step pictorial guide shows to how we approached our first keyhole garden project. An important disclaimer: this is a step-by-step guide on how we did things here at Valhalla during our first attempt; it is not a list of instructions on how to build the perfect keyhole garden bed by any stretch of the imagination. Then we added some large jugs of water. "You've gotta be joking.. " Gateway: Forest Gardens - by MsDebbieP | GardenTenders.com :: gardening community. Thanks for the link, Debbie. I have planted eighteen of the plants listed, as well as some others I would add to that list. : ) Like you, I will be adding more! I think it is very timely that we begin to think about and act accordingly on the realization that our current lifestyle is not sustainable. I was reading Scientific American magazine today and I came across an article with a visionary focus about the next revolution in farming by John Reganold. As many permaculture advocates, he believes and bases his actions on the fact that the planet will not be able to produce enough food for the estimated nine billion people who will populate this world by the midcentury without causing “irreparable damage to the environment” if we continue to engage in conventional farming practices.
He suggests that we have to switch from resource-intensive practices to knowledge-intensive practices in order to sustainably provide food for all and still have a healthy environment. Gardening like the Forest with Dave Jacke Workshop in Santa Fe, NM | Carbon Economy Series. New dates: May 31, June 1 & 2, 2013Friday Night Talk $10 Saturday all day workshop $175Sunday all day workshop $175 All 3 days $300 Sponsor/SFCC Student/TB/special discount registration and for Buddy Pass & 20% discount registration please call 505-819-3828.
This workshop explores the vision, theory, design, and practice of ecosystem agriculture using the temperate deciduous forest ecosystem as the model. May 31, 7-9 pm GARDENING LIKE THE FOREST: The Deep Ecology of ecosystem agricultureDave JackeAt Santa Fe Community College Friday evening public talk and panel discussion with Dave Jacke Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves by their very nature. Back to top GARDENING LIKE THE FOREST:DESIGNING EDIBLE HABITATS AND PERENNIAL POLYCULTURES Dave JackeAt Santa Fe Community College Ecosystem agriculture intends to create food-producing habitats that mimic natural ecosystem properties, principles, patterns, and processes.
From David’s desk to YOU: Dave Jacke Back to top. Hydro Fuel Generator | Alternative Gas Solution. 54e42da6-6412-494b-a57c-53d6cb09875d. Rotary Hydroponic Gardens Volksgarden® Welcome to Your Indoor Garden! The Volksgarden® brings simple, clean, and amazingly effective hydroponics gardening to the comforts of your own home. Grow what you want, when you want! The Volksgarden® unit allows you to grow up to 80 plants at once. Herbs, Vegetables, Fruits, and Grains can be harvested easily and continuously by even beginner gardeners. Like all units featuring Omega Garden Technology, the Volksgarden® utilizes a rotating cylinder housing the plants arranged around the light at the center.
The result is highly effective use of lumens, water, and nutrients. Ultimately, you'll have a garden that grows fast, strong, and healthy through each season of the year. Arts & Culture/News & Features/Hot Topic | A Garden of Eating Blooms on Beacon Hill. Growing Beacon Hill’s new Food Forest will take a village—but it will also feed one. Those Pink Lady apples you’re eyeing at the supermarket cost $2.49 a pound. A feather-light pint of organic raspberries? Five bucks. But at the new, 7-acre Beacon Hill Food Forest, these and other garden produce will be free (with a little sweat equity encouraged). Funded in part by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, and planted and maintained by dozens of volunteers, this public Garden of Eden—including fruit and nut trees, mulberry bushes and snack paths of strawberries—will break ground this fall and is due to bear its first harvest starting in the summer of 2013.
Unlike the city’s many P-Patches, where the garden food belongs to whoever does the planting, anyone—even passersby—will be allowed to pick from the Food Forest. Food Forest organizers held three public meetings (required by the Department of Neighborhoods) to gather requests from the community before starting the official design. The Artificial Heart Is Getting a Bovine Boost. Creating a Hybrid For-Profit / Non-Profit Social Enterprise Structure | Skoll World Forum. Paul_hudnut – Jun 10, 2005 3:57 pm (#25 Total: 55) Experience at EnviroFit International We founded EnviroFit in October 2003 as a non-profit after extended discussions between the founders and our advisors about which form to use. Our idea is to develop and sell retrofit kits for 2 stroke motorcycles used as taxis in Southeast Asia (one of the largest sources of pollution in Asian cities; each motorcycle produces pollution equivalent to 50 cars). The taxi drivers are quite poor, and so we are partnering to offer microfinancing for them.
We are currently doing a beta test in Manila. Frankly, we decided that a hybrid purpose was better accomplished with a non-profit structure. I am an entrepreneur and teach entrepreneurship at Colorado State University (and I am a recovering attorney). Our business plan requires early stage investment to develop and test our retrofit technology for 2 stroke engines. So, soon after forming, we applied for 501(c)(3) exemption.
Paul. Www.iit.edu/engineering/ece/pdfs/hybrid_magazine.pdf. Top 7 Issues for an Electric Car Conversion. Yank out the engine. Install a motor, converter and batteries. And off you go in your electric car. But wait. There are issues to consider. Consumers eager to get behind the wheel of an electric car have experienced crushing disappointment for many years. But what if you can’t wait two or three years for an EV? A Test of Patience “It all depends on how eager you are,” said Steve Lough, president of the Seattle Electric Vehicle Association. “Quite frankly, I’m on the fence. Mark Hazen, of Florida-based EVHelp.com, also has his eyes wide open regarding the pros and cons of electric car conversions.
Cost is a major factor, according to Mike Moore, who runs South Carolina-based Ampmobile Conversions, with his wife Paula. After speaking with Lough, Hazen and Moore, we identified these 7 key issues in your decision-making process. 1Choose A Donor Car To state the obvious, you’ll need a donor car to use as the basis for your conversion. 2Calculate Costs 5Confront Limited Range & Speed.
Joint Implementation. Mutual help for countries with emissions targets * "Joint implementation" is a programme under the Kyoto Protocol that allows industrialized countries to meet part of their required cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions by paying for projects that reduce emissions in other industrialized countries.
In practice, this will likely mean facilities built in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- the "transition economies" -- paid for by Western European and North American countries. * The sponsoring governments will receive credits that may be applied to their emissions targets; the recipient nations will gain foreign investment and advanced technology (but not credit toward meeting their own emissions caps; they have to do that themselves). The system has advantages of flexibility and efficiency. It often is cheaper to carry out energy-efficiency work in the transition countries, and to realize greater cuts in emissions by doing so.
Carbon Finance - Carbon Funds & Facilities at the World Bank. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Renewable Renaissance.